Hi everyone it’s been awhile since I have been here and I thought things would be going along smoothly now that my son is a freshman in High School. But now I am faced with a whole new different ball game. I had to call the school because no one told me that my son was having difficulties until it was almost too late. His orginial IEP was to be that he would be striving for a High School Diploma, now I don’t know what they are going to give them. I want them to still be given a High School Diploma. But they wouldn’t give me a straight up answer. What am I supposed to do . Are there any other parents here who’s kids are in High School now. and another thing that I don’t like about what is going on, is the attendance where if you are 15mins late for a class then they mark you as not there and if you miss 7 days you fail for the year!
I don’t like it at all and the disabled children who are at the school are late because of going to there special needs classes before going to there other regular classes, I need to find a way to not let this count against my son. and now he is put into a class where the work is too easy and yet, I kept asking the teachers to give my son oral testing in his special needs class away from all the other kids, so he can concentrate to pass the required subjects. But nothing has been done. Please let me know what is the next step for me to do
Thanks
Re: High School IEP's
But in the eyes of most, if not all, employers and schools, getting a certificate of completion is no more useful than dropping out of high school. How can students who graduate with them go on to do anything?
Yours truly,
Kathy G.
pattim wrote:
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> Have you talked with his case carrier? Is he in Special Day
> Classes, resource? There are two tracks in high school, one
> for a certificate of completion and to get jobs and the other
> is a HS diploma. I work in an SDC and most of the kids in
> there will not get the diploma but they will have help from
> the Department of Rehabilitation so that they can get jobs
> after high school.
Re: High School IEP's
The sad bottom line is that many states are going to high stakes testing and rigorous graduation requirements to justify that their diploma actually means something. States became tired of complaints from employers that they were graduating kids who couldn’t read. That’s great for the college bound kids…hopefully they’ll be more prepared for college. But it’s a killer for the special needs kids. If they exempt the testing, then they automatically will not qualify for the regular diploma. But many special needs kids will not be able to pass the tests. Our state requires Algebra 1 for graduation. For awhile, LD math students have been able to exempt that one requirement and still get a diploma. But now our state is introducing a high school exit exam…and it will require some Algebra knowledge to pass the math section. So right now, the LD math kids are going to have a big problem unless the parents are successful challenging the tests.
Janis
Re: High School IEP's
Hi thanks you all for answering me, really don’t know now what program he is in, I think I need to find out. all I know that he has now been placed in smaller classes and givin the same required subjects but he has more time to complete the assignments, I will find out and let you all know,
Have you talked with his case carrier? Is he in Special Day Classes, resource? There are two tracks in high school, one for a certificate of completion and to get jobs and the other is a HS diploma. I work in an SDC and most of the kids in there will not get the diploma but they will have help from the Department of Rehabilitation so that they can get jobs after high school.